• Alien Nathan Edward
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    10 months ago

    they seem to have decided that “free speech” allows them to invalidate any law they don’t care for under the doctrine of “you’re forcing them to agree with the law by obeying it and that’s compelled speech”.

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      10 months ago

      That’s really the entire republican platform in a nutshell. “being forced to obey laws violates my free speech or religious freedom”

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        10 months ago

        that’s half of it. the other half is “being forced to let other people do what they want violates my freedom”

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        10 months ago

        See: universities claiming religious exemptions to Title IX (so they can expel students explicitly for being pregnant, LGBT+, etc etc)